SAN FRANCISCO — California lawmakers focused Wednesday on power lines as a cause of devastating wildfires, possibly including a blaze this summer that killed two people and damaged or destroyed 965 structures in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the state's largest utility, said in September that a power line rubbing against a tree may have started the blaze that burned 70,000 acres and caused $52 million in damage, becoming the seventh-most destructive in state history.

In Mariposa there is at least one business that all they do is trim trees near powerlines for PG&E. They can be seen all year round. They check the lines that cross my property at least once a year. PG&E seems to be trying.

I could only wish that SoCal Edison would cut trees by the power and phone lines on our property! They don't cut them down, but trim branches. They do trim to the transformer on one corner of our lot, but many wires criss cross over to our neighbors from there.

Related to the subject, the Round Fire nearby in February was caused by power lines, as was the Pole Fire, in 1995. The two fires that we had to prepare for evacuation.